Pizza At Three O Clock
No writer could be more obsessed with geography than April Smith. She even takes the title of her debut novel, “North of Montana” (293 pages. Knopf. $23), from a map coordinate. The “Montana” in question is a street in Santa Monica. To the north lies a swanky neighborhood populated by the nouveau riche, including a surgeon accused by an aging movie queen of addicting her to painkillers. To nail the doc, Ana Grey, an ambitious young FBI agent, treks out to the desert, then loops back to Malibu, Westwood, Marina del Rey and the Latino turf around Echo Park....